|
Roots
Men and women who have travelled far and wide to chase their dreams talk about the place or, more often, the places, that are inextricably linked to their sense of who they are and where they belong
 ESSAY
MUKUL KESAVAN
No Place Like Home
In location and language, I was more an Agrawal from Delhi than an Iyengar from Mysore
 ESSAY
MARK TULLY
Rooting For Home
In humans, as in plants, roots grow deeper if left to grow in one place, untransplanted
 ESSAY
RAMA BIJAPURKAR
Going Native In Bits
'Back home' was always going to be a problematic place. And not just because it was not one place.
 MY NATIVE PLACE
PRAKASH KARAT
Monks & Football
The Marxist leader tells Smita Gupta about growing up in Rangoon in the 1950s
SMITA GUPTA
 ESSAY
PRASOON JOSHI
Mountain-Spirited
Kumaon and its people are forever a watercolour memory, much like its mild sunlight
 ESSAY
LEELA SAMSON
Patterned Blanket
Three cities have shaped my life, knitting and weaving across each other in little strings
 ESSAY
BASHARAT PEER
Beyond Your Doors
Arrivals, departures. A little bit of Seer and the Valley and the distance from the world.
 ESSAY
EBRAHIM ALKAZI
Background Colour
I might not have gone back to my native place—Poona—but it has always stayed with me.
 ESSAY
JASWANT SINGH
Jasoldiering On
"So deep-rooted in me is my birthplace, I take Rajasthan with me wherever I go"
 ESSAY
VISWANATHAN ANAND
Sterling Rd Meetings
Time touches a city after its own manner, often unaiding memory. Still, I remain a Chennai boy.
 ESSAY
JUG SURAIYA
Calcutta Chromosome
The city casts a spell so deep, the chronic attack of nostalgia transcends time and space
 ESSAY
BELINDA WRIGHT
The Belonging Heart
"Calcutta, Delhi, and then Madhya Pradesh—but home will always be a place in India"
 ESSAY
ARNAB GOSWAMI
The Soil Beckons
The years in other cities have only strengthened my sense of belonging to my roots in Assam
MY NATIVE PLACE
GILANI FAMILY
Sweet Smell Of Home
Namrata Joshi accompanies the Gilanis from Pakistan on their homecoming to Masanian
NAMRATA JOSHI
|
